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ABUJA, Nigeria, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Attacks on Nigerian oil production will be used to drive energy companies from the Niger Delta, a militant group said.
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A jailed insurgent leader has warned that fighting in the Niger Delta, center of the largest oil industry in sub-Saharan Africa, will soon escalate.
LONDON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- London updated it travel advisory for Nigeria after the Movement for the Emancipation for the Niger Delta issued new threats of an attack.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The younger brother of Nigerian rebel leader Henry Okah was arrested in Lagos by Nigerian authorities investigating a deadly Oct. 1 bombing, officials said.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The exiled leader of a Nigerian rebel group denies any complicity in two deadly bomb attacks in Abuja last week as he awaited charges Sunday.
LAGOS, Nigeria, July 13 (UPI) -- The leading rebel group in Nigeria has claimed responsibility for an attack on an oil tanker facility near the commercial hub of Lagos.
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Two British oil company workers being held by Nigerian rebels in the country's Niger Delta region appear to be in good health, a British newspaper says.
One of Nigeria's most notorious militant leaders from the oil-rich Niger Delta is being tried in a closed-door proceeding on gun and treason charges.
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 7 (UPI) -- Nigerian prosecutors have charged two leaders of a separatist movement in the Niger Delta with treason.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A Nigerian group opposing government abuses said it sent an open letter to U.S. President Bush asking him to find a solution to the conflict.
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